2016 – 2017

 

Editor's Introduction

—DR. GREGORY MILLER, EDITOR OF PRIZED WRITING

Bridging the Gap: A University and a Local Food Bank Turn Food Waste into Food Security

—FUNKE ADERONMU

Native America: The Struggle to Be Heard

—AMANDA AGUILAR

"A Minority Within a Minority": Filipinos in the United Farmworkers Movement

—MARIEL BARBADILLO

The Hunters at Rest: Vasily Perov’s Response to Manet’s Depiction of French Leisure

—LOUISA BRANDT

The Car Seat of American Values

—MICHAELA BYRD

Down and Dirty

—MATTHEW CHAN

Medical Consent: Is It Ever Truly Informed?

—MACALISTAIR COLQUHOUN

A Confluence of Structure, Technique, and Influence in the 1829 Berliner Singakademie’s St. Matthew Passion

—JAMES COTA

Roosevelt’s Rincon Annex: A Story of a Post Office and Communist Murals

—JULIANNE CRAVOTTO

Posttraumautic Stress Disorder Stress as a Physical Injury

—AMANDA DAO

Progress Realized: Octavia Butler’s Post-human Worlds in Search of Potential

—EMILIE DeFAZIO

Kepone and Hopewell, Virginia: A Toxic Tragedy: 1966–1975

—ELISE HICKMAN

The Tragedy of Plessy v. Ferguson—as Told by Pudd’nhead Wilson

—MARLEE HORWITZ

World of Warcraft: Hardcoded Racial Essentialism and Its Effects on Player Interaction

—SOPHIA HORWITZ-HIRSCH

Non-Genetic Determinants of Breast Cancer Risk in BRCA1/2 Mutations Carriers: A Review of Potential Factors

—KELSEY KLEIN

Untangling the Origin of Cucumis Sativus and Cucumis Melo and their Dissemination into Europe and Beyond

—AIMEE LEVINSON

Electroejaculation in Wild Felines

—COURTNEY LOUIE

Impacts and Policy Implications of Barred Owl Expansion, Fire Regime Management, and Other Factors On Spotted Owl Conservation

—MICHAEL MONTGOMERY

What’s Up with the Davis Wild Turkey Flock? (WTF)

—MAXINE MULVEY

For Better or For Worse: Spotify and the Music Industry

—STEPHANIE POMALES

Pediatric Blepharoptosis: A Case Study Two Ways

—LAUREN SALINERO

Women’s Health and Women’s Silence

—MEKALEYA TILAHUN

Ficus Carica’s Negative Impact on Riparian Ecosystems

—JOYCE WONG

 

HONORABLE MENTIONS

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Cover art by Cindy Cheung